Greetings gentlemen, and thanks for the information.
KTadd: I am around.. In fact I'm VERY round.
I am in shape! Round is a shape. So, that's good.
AmigaKit:
I left out a detail because I wasn't sure and didn't want to mislead:
I downloaded the latest from AmiStore successfully, but I was never able to get it to complete the installation without a crash.
Many attempts, none reached the finish line.
Tonight I booted to a different partition, then copied the "installation files" over the system partition that was trying to install.
This may not be right, but it worked anyway.
I'm sure I lost the automatic backup of overwritten files and probably a few things out of place, but it's working now, and
after a couple tries updater even works.
Progress for sure.
I've opened a few minor bug reports in Mantis.. nothing earth shattering but useful all the same.
Thanks for the help guys.
Lyle